Très Parisien, 1925, No. 11, Pl. 5: Création de PANGON - GLYCINE ROSE 1925

G-P. Joumard made this print called “Très Parisien” in 1925, and right away I'm thinking about how the artist has constructed a vision of modern life through careful color choices and flat, graphic forms. I feel for this artist! It’s like, how do you capture the spirit of a time, a place, a feeling? I imagine Joumard walking the streets of Paris, sketchbook in hand, trying to distill the essence of Parisian chic. The rose color, wow. It’s not just pink, it’s glycine rose—wisteria pink. The way it pops against the neutral background, it’s like a burst of energy, a flash of modernity. And those decorative elements, the geometric patterns, the stylized figure—it’s all about capturing a mood, a moment, a sense of forward motion. It’s not trying to be realistic. We see echoes of this desire to capture contemporary life in the work of other painters, say Manet, or even later with someone like David Hockney. Artists are always responding to each other, riffing on each other’s ideas. And that’s what makes art so exciting—it’s an ongoing conversation, a continuous exchange of ideas across time.